Use the Students Access database template

Use the Access Student database template to keep track of information about your students, including emergency contacts, medical information, and information about their guardians. You can also search and filter students, track student attendance, show or hide columns, and map student addresses.

Note: The Students database template has been updated over the last few years. These instructions refer to the latest version of the template available for download. If the steps below don't match what you're seeing, you're probably using an older version of the template.

Using the database

In this article, we cover the basic steps of using the Students database template.

Prepare the database for use

When you first open the database, Access displays the Welcome form. To prevent this form from displaying the next time you open the database, clear the Show Welcome when this database is opened check box.

Close the Welcome form to begin using the database.

To make sure all the database content is enabled, in the Message Bar, click Enable this content.